[swift-evolution] [proposal] Either in the Swift Standard Library

[Craig Cruden]

So to summarize….

Either is too specialized and thus not a good add…

And the general implementation that is not specialized - is likely too complicated to easily add.

:o

> On 2016-01-29, at 1:08:44, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:
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>> On Jan 27, 2016, at 10:09 PM, Thorsten Seitz via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
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>> As an alternative to Either for expressing a sum type I'd like to throw real union types like Ceylon uses into the discussion.
>> 
>> http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.2/tour/types/ <http://ceylon-lang.org/documentation/1.2/tour/types/>
> FWIW, this has been discussed before on swift-evolution.  Adding them isn’t out of the question, but it is a lot more complicated than it looks for the type checker.
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> -Chris
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